Water-elevator.



No. 807,443. PATENTED DEC. 19, 1905. J. M. DINSMORE.

WATER ELEVATOR.

APPLICATION FILED MAY13.1906.

JAMES M. DINSMORE, OF MOAB, UTAH.

WATER-ELEVATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 19, 1905.

Application filed May 13,1905. Serial No. 260,270.

1'0 all w/tom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES M. DINSMORE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Moab, in the county of Grand and State of Utah, have invented new and useful Improvements in Water-Elevators, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is a current-wheel for elevating water for irrigation or other purposes.

The object of the invention is to produce a wheel which can be raised from or lowered into the water, as desired, and which will be supported on the bank of the ditch or stream and capable of adjustment to suit ditches of various shapes or depths.

By the construction shown the ditch or stream is not obstructed in any way and there is no danger of causing sand-bars or washing out the sides of the ditch, as when floats moored in the streams are used.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a face view of the wheel in lowered osition. Fig. 2 is a sectional view in raise position.

Referring specifically to the drawings, 6 indicates a casing, which is located upon the bank 7 of the ditch or stream. This casing is preferably built of masonry, although with small wheels it may be constructed of metal or other material. The casing is segmental in shape and has at its front or the side toward the stream a slidable segmental plate 8, the side edges of which slide in grooves 9, formed in the casing. Journaled in a suitable bearing in this plate is the axle 9 of the wheel, and the inner end of the axle is connected to a pivot 10, extending into the sides of the casing. The plate 8 can be slid up and down, carrying with it the axle which swings on its pivot 10. A handle 11 serves to raise or lower the plate and it may be held at adjustment by any suitable clamp, such as a hand-screw 12.

The wheel is journaled on the axle and comprises a hub 13, a ring or rim 14, stays or spokes 15, and buckets 16, with which are formed paddles 17. The paddles are circular dished plates, preferably made of metal and secured at the sides of their rims to the ring 14. The spokes 15 are doubled, being formed of metal rod or wire, and are prefer I ably looped around the rim of the paddles,

the edges of which are then turned over the rod or wire, as shown at 18, to stifien and strengthen the same. On the back side of each paddle is the bucket 16.

Supported on the upper end of the sliding plate 8 is a discharge-gutter 20, into which the buckets discharge at the top of the wheel. By reason of the inclination of the front of the casing the wheel is tilted or inclined, and inasmuch as the gutter is raised and lowered with the wheel it at all times or in all positions receives the water emptied from the buckets.

In use the wheel can be raised or lowered, as desired, by the means above indicated. When lowered into the ditch or stream, the impact of the current against the paddles 17 turns the wheel and the rising buckets 16 elevate the water and empty the same into the gutter, whence it can be conveyed away as desired.

The scope of the invention is not limited to the exact construction shown; but various modifications or changes in the construction and details may be made without departing from the scope of the invention as represented by the following claims.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A current water-wheel elevator having blades and dip-buckets, and movable up and down into andout of the water, and a discharge-gutter movable up and down with the wheel, and located near the top and above the axis thereof, and arranged to receive waterfrom the buckets.

2. The combination with a casing on the bank of a stream or ditch, and having a plate slidable up and down therein, of an axle pivoted at oneend in the. casing and extending out through a bearing in the plate, and a current-wheel carried on said axle and having dip-buckets.

3. The combination with an axle pivoted to a support on the bank of a stream, of a slide having bearings for the axle, a currentwheel on the'axle having di -buckets, and a gutter on the slide, arrange to receive water emptied from the buckets.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES M. DINSMORE.

Witnesses:

J. W. WILLIAMS, J. O. TAYLOR. 

